How do I not repair a golem?

[Martyn van Buren]

I just captured a world with a golem on it I don't really want (cursed golem, took the world for an ARS), and after a few minutes I noticed that my engineers were repairing it.  I tried putting it in low-power mode, but it seems that they see it as a damaged ship rather than a construction site, so they're still working on it.  How do I get them to stop?  Do I have to take them out of FRD mode?  I'd rather not, because it's a front-line world and I'd like them to maintain my turrets.

[x4000]

Putting it in low-power mode should work, but apparently there's a bug there.

[Martyn van Buren]

Cool, thanks.  Let me double-check quickly, will update in a minute.

[Martyn van Buren]

Yup, buggy.  Attached a save if it helps.

Btw, broken golems' tooltips don't include their attack power; could that be added?  It's pretty easy to get ahold of online, but it would be nice to have when you're trying to choose between a few (I'm playing a very small map).

[x4000]

There's already a mantis issue about the attack power, etc.  In terms of the bug, can you add that to mantis if it's not already there?

[Martyn van Buren]

Will do.

[x4000]

Thanks!

[x4000]

By the way, as a workaround, you can make it so that your FRD engineers only repair military targets I think -- there are some CTLS screen options that might help, at any rate.  I forget what all the permutations are at this stage, as I don't use a lot of them myself.

[chemical_art]

Have you tried that one tool that lets engineers ignore certain high-resource projects? I have never had engineers repair golems automatically, but I do remember using this tool and I wonder if that tool is why I never experience this.


Let me load up a game to be more specific...


EDIT: It is located under "CTRL". It has a box and if it is a non zero number engineers will not assist the projects above the number per second. My number is at 400 and my engineers never touch most golems, online or not. The only way I can get units to automatically repair them then is to use a non-engineer unit like a fort. Coincidentally, I use forts when I want to repair a golem slowly over a period of time since it doesn't necessarily break the bank like a MK 2 engineer could.

[Echo35]

Have you tried that one tool that lets engineers ignore certain high-resource projects? I have never had engineers repair golems automatically, but I do remember using this tool and I wonder if that tool is why I never experience this.


Let me load up a game to be more specific...


EDIT: It is located under "CTRL". It has a box and if it is a non zero number engineers will not assist the projects above the number per second. My number is at 400 and my engineers never touch most golems, online or not. The only way I can get units to automatically repair them then is to use a non-engineer unit like a fort. Coincidentally, I use forts when I want to repair a golem slowly over a period of time since it doesn't necessarily break the bank like a MK 2 engineer could.

I was going to say, I thought there were some Control nodes to prevent repair of certain things/resource counts/etc.

[Martyn van Buren]

Thanks, this works.  Especially "Engineers do not repair low-powered ships."

[x4000]

Ah, okay -- in that case, this actually isn't a bug.  I forgot about that; we'd implemented that as a control option, rather than as a default behavior, due to player request for that to be the case.  Sometimes it's hard to remember!  But that mantis issue can be closed, anyhow.